Quotes About Legacy

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.

We will always miss Balasaheb, but I will work hard to ensure that his absence is not felt politically.

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

I don't want to be known as a politician.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

No politician has a 50-year horizon.

No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one.

None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.

Just like a politician's son or daughter joins politics, it happens in our industry, too.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.